The grassy quadrangle which geographers called Kansas. Her undulating fields are the floors of ancient seas. These limestone ledges underlying the prairies and cropping from the foreheads of the hills are the cemeteries of the marine insect life of the primeval world. The inexhaustible humus is the mould of the decaying herbage of unnumbered centuries. It is only upon calcareous plains in temperate latitudes that agriculture is supreme, and the rich nourishment imparted essential to bulk, endurance and speed in animals, to grace, beauty and passion in women and in man to stature, courage and longevity.
John James Ingalls, 1833-1900
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